November 2013 - The Buffalo Common Council has approved the demolition of the Erie Freight House allowing for a 78 unit apartment project to proceed. The development team is a partnership made up of contractor/developer Sam Savarino and Frontier Group of Companies, LLC (formerly FFZ Holdings).

March 2015 - Demolition begins, with some unknown amount of material use planned or at least announced.

Other Pertinent Facts

441 Ohio Street, LLC retained the local architectural firm Chaintreuil Jensen Stark to study and determine all reasonable uses for the property including rehabilitation of the existing building. Tredo Engineers was also retained to provide a third party engineering analysis of the building. (Buffalo Rising)